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Lot 1198 Dα

A Meissen porcelain lidded cup and saucer as a friendship token

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €

A Meissen porcelain lidded cup and saucer as a friendship token

Painted with a depiction of an urn on a column in a wooded landscape, reminiscent of the funeral monument of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Ermenonville, the well of the saucer inscribed "Unsere Freundschaft währe bis dahin" (may our friendship last until then). Blue crossed swords mark with star and 4 (cup), dreher's mark. A retouched area to the gilt rim of the saucer. H with lid 9.2, D of saucer 13.8 cm.
Circa 1790 – 1800.

Provenance

The Hiemisch collection, acquired in 1985 in the USA.